----- Original Message ----- From: "William Denton" <
buff@pobox.com>
> Here's the first line to that JDM novelization, I
COULD GO ON SINGING:
>
> | Through the window at his elbow he saw the last
misty halo, a small
> | pink-white radiance of metropolitan millions,
inconsequential as swamp
> | fire, sliding away and behind as the jet tilted,
climbing up to
> | authorized altitude for the eastward flight across
the Atlantic, rushing
> | toward the sun at half the speed of light, a sun
which by now, he
> | estimated, was dawning over Moscow and would meeet
him on this March
> | morning in Paris.
>
> That's one fast plane.
Maybe with the mist and all that, the light was travelling
slower than normal that day.
Al
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